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Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training
Martin Strous
ISBN: 0-275-98148-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98148-8
176 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
Discount Price: $35.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his homeland South Africa, and focuses on how those practices reflect assumptions concerning racial superiority. Also addressed is how therapists may be influenced by prevailing ideologies, unaware of how prejudices translate into discriminatory work practices, and ignorant of the power of their own discriminatory discourses.

The author also investigates how positive attitudes by counselors and therapists reflect positions related to racial sensitivity. He proposes a new model for multicultural and multiracial sensitivity training.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
    Preface
    Apartheid-Style Psychology
    Mental Health and Racism
    Mental Health Services in South Africa: Separate and Unequal
    Counselor Encapsulation
    Alternatives to Apartheid-Style Psychology
    Democratic and Client Empowering Initiatives
    Postmodernism, Social Constructionism, and Their Confluence with Democratic Ideals
    Training Models
    Hearing Clients' Inner Talk in Multicultural Contexts: Pedersen's Triad Model
    Hearing Counselor Self-Talk: The Anticlient-Proclient Model
    Difference and Interplay between Anticlient and Proclient Positions: Initial Research Findings
    Afterword
    References
    Index
About the Author: MARTIN STROUS is a psychotherapist and educational psychologist based in South Africa.
LCC Class: 362
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